The Virtual & Immersive Production Studio is an innovation and research driven production studio with state-of-the-art sound and vision performance capture capabilities located at University of Nottingham’s King’s Meadow campus.

Founded by a team of creative, technical and curiosity led experts, the studio supports a range of researchers, artists, SMEs, creatives and community groups to develop unique immersive experiences in film, TV, games, performance arts production and audience engagement.

Utilising cutting-edge performance capture technology, the team work with partners to create a wide range of meaningful and exciting digital and immersive experiences for customers, visitors and audiences.

Projects include immersive theatre experiences, interactive AR applications, mixed media gaming experiences, digital twin performances, VR training applications, VR video dance and circus experiences, audio augmented photography, projection mapping, and many more virtual and immersive focused collaborations.

Studio Technology

The studio has a wide range of the latest cutting-edge performance capture technology set in a large acoustically treated studio including a fixed chromakey suite.
Ensuring high-quality audio outputs, the studio has a fully featured recording and playback system for stereo, binaural and ambisonic audio.

Technologies include:
16 camera Vicon motion capture system
10 camera Scatter Volumetric Capture system
Faceware Mark IV facial performance capture system
Three Teslasuit motion capture and haptic feedback suits
State of the art Varjo XR3 mixed reality headset
15 meta quest 2 headsets
Suite of high-performance projectors
Industry standard movie cameras and lighting equipment
Several drones including a DJI mini pro cinema drone and a DGI avata first person racing drone.

Studio Sizes (metric):

Studio 1: 187 metres sq, 5m height, 12.5m x 15m

Studio 2: 756 metres sq, 8m height, 27m x 28m